# Apple App Store Search, Top Charts & App Metadata (`northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata.md
- **Developed by:** [Northgrid Data](https://apify.com/northgrid-data) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Marketing
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 app row returneds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Apple App Store Search, Top Charts & App Metadata

Get structured App Store data straight from Apple's own public APIs (iTunes Search/Lookup API and the Apple Marketing Tools charts feed). No browser, no proxies, fast and cheap.

### Three modes

- **search**: keyword search per storefront with the rank of each app. Use it for ASO, competitor discovery and keyword research.
- **lookup**: full metadata for apps you already know (URL or ID): rating, rating count, price, version, last update, release notes, genres, languages, size, developer and more.
- **charts**: Apple's top free / top paid charts per country, optionally enriched with full metadata.

### Typical uses

- Track where your app ranks for a keyword in 10 countries, daily (schedule the Actor).
- Monitor competitors' version, rating and price changes.
- Build lead lists of app developers by category (developer name, website, app URL).
- Compare chart positions across storefronts.

### Input example

```json
{ "mode": "search", "searchTerms": ["budget tracker", "expense manager"], "countries": ["us", "gb", "de"], "maxResultsPerQuery": 50 }
```

### Output fields

`appId, name, bundleId, developer, developerUrl, url, price, formattedPrice, rating, ratingCount, primaryGenre, genres, version, releaseDate, lastUpdated, releaseNotes, description, languages, sizeBytes, icon, screenshots, searchRank / chartRank, country`

### Pricing

Pay per result: $0.002 per app row returned. A 50-result search costs $0.10.

### Notes

- Data comes from Apple's public, documented endpoints. Apple limits search to 200 results per query and charts to 100 rows.
- Need App Store *reviews* too? See our [App Store Reviews Scraper](https://apify.com/northgrid-data/app-store-reviews-multi-country).
- Questions or a field you need? Open an issue on the Actor page; we reply quickly.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

search = keyword search results with rank; lookup = full metadata for known apps; charts = Apple top free/paid charts.

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

Keywords to search the App Store for, e.g. "budget tracker".

## `apps` (type: `array`):

App Store URLs or numeric IDs, e.g. 389801252 or https://apps.apple.com/us/app/instagram/id389801252.

## `charts` (type: `array`):

Which chart(s): top-free, top-paid.

## `includeCharts` (type: `boolean`):

In charts mode, enrich each chart row with ratings, price, version, description etc.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

Two-letter storefront codes such as us, gb, de.

## `maxResultsPerQuery` (type: `integer`):

Per search term / chart and country. Search max 200, charts max 100.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchTerms": [
    "budget tracker"
  ],
  "apps": [],
  "charts": [
    "top-free"
  ],
  "includeCharts": false,
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerQuery": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `apps` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerms": [
        "budget tracker"
    ],
    "apps": [],
    "countries": [
        "us"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchTerms": ["budget tracker"],
    "apps": [],
    "countries": ["us"],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerms": [
    "budget tracker"
  ],
  "apps": [],
  "countries": [
    "us"
  ]
}' |
apify call northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,northgrid-data/app-store-search-charts-metadata"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LWtjgW7laCkNNgmaO/builds/W5ZbWckTw6HtMPG3z/openapi.json